Special Counsel

Principled Republicans call for the impeachment of Donald Trump – none are currently serving in Congress

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There are principled Republicans calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump. Unlike the Watergate era, none of these principled Republicans are currently serving in Congress. Prominent conservative attorneys released a public statement on Tuesday saying the framers of America’s Constitution would have held an impeachment trial in the Senate for President Donald Trump. Press Release: … Read more

Multiple House investigations are a necessary predicate to impeachment

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I want to borrow an idea from Roderick Kefferpütz at Medium last year. Trumping Trump: A Gulliver Strategy: “What seems to be effective in countering Trump is a “Gulliver strategy” — a convergence of many different smaller actors to contain him, as in Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels.” This is effectively what the House congressional committees are … Read more

A contrarian view of the Mueller Report

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Ronald Klain is one of the brightest (and funniest) lawyers in the business. He served as a senior White House aide to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, chief of staff to Vice Presidents Joe Biden and Al Gore, chief of staff to the attorney general, associate counsel to the president, and chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary … Read more

The ethical and moral depravity of the Party of Trump

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Long-time readers know that I am no fan of Willard “Mittens” Romney. He is as phony as a three dollar bill. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. Sen. Romney’s statement last week about the redacted Mueller Report got one thing exactly right: [I] am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of … Read more

Donald Trump is but a manifestation of the cancer within the GOP

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From the Nixon Tapes: John Dean: I think that there’s no doubt about the seriousness of the problem we’ve got. We have a cancer within-close to the presidency, that’s growing. It’s growing daily. It’s compounding. It grows geometrically now, because it compounds itself… Today the husband of the Wicked Witch of the White House, Kellyanne … Read more